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 EFFECTS OF THE TREATY 95 There is no mention of civil or criminal jurisdiction, nor of any system of law to be administered. The English Company felt that the royal role of peace- maker had been played chiefly at their cost. They peti- tioned the king in particular against the articles touch- ing the forts, " as utterly cutting off the Company from all hope and expectation of their obtaining any parts of the forts at any time hereafter, which in the end would utterly exclude the Company from the whole trade of the Indies. " Even the king's ambassador at The Hague thought the fortress clauses might have been more advantageous to us, while his friend Cham- berlain plainly wrote to him: " Say what they can, things are passed as the other [side] would have it." Secretary Calvert regarded the treaty as a mere sus- pension of the dispute, and believed a great opportunity had been lost, for the Portuguese, French, and Danes were all eager for a trade alliance with us in the East. However, on July 16, 1619, King James ratified the engagement, and sweetened the pill to his subjects by a clause promising to erect no other East India Com- pany during the treaty term of twenty years. As a matter of fact, it but little affected events in the East. The treaty did not reach India till March, 1620, when the Dutch and English generals suspended their hostilities, proclaimed it on every ship from the mainmast, feasted each other, and liberated all prison- ers on both sides. But their quarrel had got beyond control from home, and their amity ended as the smoke of their salvos cleared off. The English were trying